Executive Profile

John B. Kahan

Background

Mr. John B. Kahan serves as General Manager of Business and Customer Intelligence of Online Services Division at Microsoft. Mr. Kahan oversees Microsoft's online customer data assets, analytics, marketing operations and its next generation Business and Customer Intelligence systems. Additionally, he runs international marketing operations for Bing and MSN worldwide. He served as General Manager of Customer Global Relationship Marketing of Microsoft Corp. Mr. Kahan joined ... Microsoft from IBM, where he spent over 18 years in international marketing and sales, conducting programs in more than 60 countries. At IBM, Mr. Kahan served as Vice President of Integrated Marketing Communication for the Sales and Distribution division, where he led IBM's customer-facing teams in marketing and brand activities around the globe. He served as Director of IBM Global Direct Marketing and was responsible for the go-to-market direct marketing model for all IBM business units worldwide. Mr. Kahan served as Chairman of the Board of BPA Worldwide from 2002 to 2008 and serves as its Director. He has been a Director of Symphony Teleca Corporation since November 18, 2013. He has been a Director of 33Across Inc., since August 2011. He serves as a Director of Direct Marketing Association Inc. He taught as an Adjunct Professor at NYU for five years. Mr. Kahan holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an MBA in International Business and Finance from the New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business.

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